The Duplicati Portal has a long list of features, some are announced and others will be. We decided to start with the feature that was most requested by the community and current users, which is clearly monitoring. We are currently implementing more dashboard features and will soon add some of the paid-only features.
I am not a user of duplicati-monitoring so I cannot make a comparison for you.
The company is founded around an open-core business model, so having a thriving open-source community is a must. There is no closed-sourced client and everything works with the open-source client.
The communication is a bit hard because the Duplicati domain serves both open-source content (the download page for instance) and things from the company (the portal subscriptions for instance).
There is no closed-source version so it would be speculative to talk about how it would potentially work.
Maybe this was the part you figured out, but yes, if you are using another monitoring solution today, you can switch over quite easily, nothing else changes. I have added a feature that allows having multiple monitoring solutions set up as that was requested. Only the “debug” binaries have this feature for now, but if you use it, you can use the two monitoring systems in parallel.
I can get behind that. Anything you pay for should add value in some form. We intend to make sure that the Duplicati Portal is worth paying for. If there is a feature missing in the portal that you think would make it worthwhile for you to become a customer, please get in touch.
Please don’t use Github issues for request to the portal